Logic Pro 9Happy NY guys/

Logician

Wishes for a happy new year!!
L9 for me is so much better than L8 so my main wish now is for the text-buttons and icons generally to get
bigger and the contrast getting better in the software, recognizing the 62% of the population wearing glasses
and the 75% using some sort of aid, (the ergonomic aspect of it).

Polyphonic midi-scrubbing with the cursor would be good. My work-around for this is the magic Pause-button.
I use Play/Pause instead of Play/stop. The difference is that in pause-mode Logic will scrub anything, midi, audio, forward, backward, you name it. Grab the play-line anywhere (you don't have to go up to the bar-ruler) with the cursor on an empty background-area in the arrange-window or anywhere in the piano-roll editor and pull it gently a bit to the left (cause the playhead is wild the first split second) and there u go. An empty audio-track playing will calm things down generally if you need it. (Set a higher divident for better resolution). Good for checking harmonies for horns/strings etc. And thanks for all your help last year (bowing.)

Logician

Very cool, Ming! Thanks for sharing this! As a former SVP-user, I can appreciate a solid polyphonic scrub ^_^ Seriously, I was about to post a question on scrubbing midi, and this trick/feature? just hit an important part of how I like to edit. Thanks again. Sharing little tips like this really speeds up the learning process for me.

Logician

Finally, an "ah-hah" moment on the scrubbing question.
After reading Ming's contribution, I went to the transport window looking in vain for the Play/Pause button.
Finally I realized I can hit play, then hit pause, and grab the play-line and hear everything in the arrange window.

Perhaps it might be good to suggest we notate this function as play>pause>grab play line. Then minds without thought like mine can grasp the steps required.

Logician

I'm pretty sure for those with the extended keyboard that the period is default. Not sure on the laptop keyboard - which drives me nuts as the key locations are so different for key commands - so I bought an extended keyboard for my laptop as well......

Logician

I'm pretty sure for those with the extended keyboard that the period is default. Not sure on the laptop keyboard - which drives me nuts as the key locations are so different for key commands - so I bought an extended keyboard for my laptop as well......